Biological activities of Pereskia bleo extracts

• Main Authors: Abdelwahab, Siddig Ibrahim, Abdul, Ahmad Bustamam, Mohan, Syam Murali, Al-Zubairi, Adel Sharaf, Elhassan Taha, Manal Mohamed, Ibrahim, M. Y.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asian Network for Scientific Information 2009
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13416/1/Biological%20activities%20of%20Pereskia%20bleo%20extracts.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13416/; http://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=ijp.2009.71.75

The aim of this study is to screen the hexane, dicholoromethane, ethyl acetate and methanol extracts of Pereskia bleo (PB) for their antibacterial, anti-oxidant and anti-cancer properties using disc diffusion method, DPPH assay and MTT cytotoxicity test, respectively. It is found that hexane and met...